Despite a heavy environmental impact, industrial animal agriculture is largely exempted from federal and state air and water pollution regulations.

Factory farming, or industrial animal agriculture, is often seen as a necessary evil to meet the world's growing demand for meat. Chickens, pigs, and cows are confined in cages, crates, or ...

Before a new exhibition on factory farming opened Tuesday, an image of a piglet mid-castration — screaming, restrained — was ...

There is a growing consensus that factory farming of animals – also known as CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations – is morally wrong. The American animal rights movement, which in its ...

“We could see that it was only a matter of time until our small farm was just not viable,” Goodman said “The cheese factory that we were selling to was losing its market share because of cheaper ...

Ridglan Farms houses more than 3,200 dogs whose only purpose is to be used in - or sold for - scientific experiments.

According to World Animal Protection, more than 95 percent of these hens live in factory farming conditions. Chickens hatched on factory egg farms lead horrifying lives. Male chicks are nearly ...

Preference was given to those in attendance, so those of us who have actually been impacted by factory farms were never given an opportunity to address the North Dakota Senate. Denied an ...